Adam Biessener

The next full entry in the Civilization series has been announced by publisher 2K Games, and it's going to be on a hex grid.

With yesterday's launch of the StarCraft II beta, we're finally getting
a good look at what the promised Battle.net relaunch is going to look
like.

According to a report out of Europe, the Ubisoft digital rights management service for future PC games that is debuting with Assassin's Creed 2 and Settlers 7 is even more draconian than we feared.

Thanks to enthusiastic World of Warcraft players shelling out a couple
bucks apiece for an in-game Pandaren Monk pet, Blizzard just wrote a
check for over a million dollars to the Make-A-Wish foundation.

Gas Powered Games announced its next project this morning via a
tongue-in-cheek press release and video blog. Kings and Castles is a
fantasy RTS that uses the über-zooming technology seen in GPG's
previous games.

I remembered that I have a build of 2K Sports' MLB 2K10 at my desk, so
I simulated the season to see how Visual Concepts thinks the year is
going to go for Little Nicky.

Blizzard has released the first images and details of what players can
expect from Battle.net when StarCraft II comes out in a canned
"interview" video with Battle.net project director Greg Canessa.

EA executives dropped the news that BioWare's Star Wars MMORPG is
expected to ship in fiscal 2011 in a conference call with investors.

What if I told you that Magic: The Gathering designer
Richard Garfield had created a Magic-esque video game that included
online leagues, a replayable single-player campaign, and didn't require
shelling out for collectible cards?

Without investor calls, how would any news break in the video game
world? THQ had its annual one recently, and CEO Brian Farrell dropped
the news that the company is working on another Red Faction game and
more.

I just got off the phone with the best athlete of his – or, really, any – generation: Joe Mauer.

It's been a while since Funcom announced PC MMO The Secret World, but today we finally get to see the game running...sort of.

Whether you're into watching or more of a hands-on kind of gamer, Command & Conquer is primed and ready for you.

Mass Effect 2 is brilliant. We all know this. What I'm here to tell you
today is that it's amazing for a bunch of reasons that you aren't
thinking about, but that you should be.

A marketing demo public beta for C&C 4: Tiberian Twilight will be available very soon.

Paradox Interactive dropped the news of a sequel to 2006's space empire grand strategy title this morning.

Gamers who put down pre-orders on Sony's upcoming MLB 10: The Show will get to grab six classic parks for use in the PS3 game.

Ubisoft is planning on rolling out a DRM (digital rights management)
solution that will require players to be connected to the Internet at
all times.